There are lots of different ways to incorporate dice games into your Halloween content at school or at home. Using dice is a great way for kids to practice one-to-one correspondence and counting, or for older kids it just adds a fun spin to a game.
One of the most basic Halloween dice game ideas is rolling a jack ‘o lantern. Each number on the die corresponds to a different part of the face, so you can end up with, say, lots of eyes if you keep rolling the same number (or just keep rolling until you hit a number you haven’t had before). Views from a Stepstool has a version of this game that uses one die, while the printable from The Savvy Sparrow uses two dice so there are more options.
You can also roll a monster, which is the same concept, just a little more open ended. You can make up your own rules like the ones above, or use this one from Mommy Made That, which has kids roll for the number of eyes, legs, teeth and arms their monster will have, as well as color and other features to add.
Or roll a monster face with these instructions from Drawing How to Draw. This one uses a single die and you roll for the specific features (like a certain kind of mouth or hair) that you then draw on your page.
The Fourth Grade Geek has a dice game on Teachers Pay Teachers that would be fun for older elementary school kids. The object is to build your skeleton the fastest based on rolls of the dice, but there’s a twist: if you roll a 6, someone can steal one of your pieces!
You can also use dice to assemble a story, like with this printable from ELSA Support. This was designed for English language learners but would be fun for kids of all ages (with little kids you could roll as a group and write a story together). Each roll gives you a part of the story such as a character, setting, emotion, prop and problem, which are then used to write a spooky story.
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